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Claustrum - Isolato

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Some refuse to call it "music": aural art sculpted from noise. Mostly rhythmic work, these pieces are divided by eccentric melodic quips that never assimilate into the whole of the work except through allusion. The pulsing time context is more musical than one might expected from reshaped electronic waveforms, creating an unpredictable but solid narrative path through blocks of drone. One riff is an extruded bent metal-on-metal squeal, and another bursts of unquenched static hissing into a rigid bass pulse. Neo-techno IDM song formats underlie what is essentially untameable, but because it is guided by rhythm, it is both music in itself and a community contribution awaiting recombination with other sounds through the mixing board of a DJ. Sequences among these songs achieve a sudden complexity as phrases used to balance each other bloom in detail and number. Drone and pulse meld in self-configuring ecstasy of sound decomposing. Whether it is designed to be music or not, it is the center of experience and can only be understood in that heard context.